Aircraft Equipment Directory

Introduction

This is a list of websites and webpages with information about specific aircraft equipment.

Avionics

• Arboga Elektronikhistoriska Förening: Avionik (Swedish)
• Rochester Avionic Archives
• Vintage Avionics

Cameras

• American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: A History of Military Mapping
• American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: Development of Aerial Camera Stabilization and Its Effect on Photogrammetry and Photo Interpretation
• Camera Wiki: Aerial Camera

Compasses

• Compassipedia: Aeronautical Compasses

Flight Computers

• Luftwaffe Data: Knemeyer Dreieckrechner (Archived)

Instruments

• AeroAntique
• Aircraft Gunsights
• Cockpit Clocks
• Deutsche Luftwaffe: Gerätekatalog 1
• Funatsu Aviation Instruments Museum
• Relojes Originales de Avion

Ordnance

• World War Two – Air Dropped Ordnance

Propellers

• Not Plane Jane
• Polish Propellers
• Wooden Propellers

Radios

• AAF Radio
• Airborne Radio Equipment Handbook
• Radio Boulevard: Airborne Radio Communications Gear & Airborne Radio Direction Finding-Navigation Equipment

Sextants

• Celestial Navigation Aloft: Aeronautical Sextants in the US

To Do

To be Organized

• http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~dspennem/ReportStore/GSAP_AN_N6A_Walkaround.pdf (Find menu page)
• http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?fq=online_media_type%3A%22Images%22&fq=topic%3A%22Avionics%22
• http://www.glennsmuseum.com/bombsights/bombsights.html
• http://nordenbombsightsbymoore.com
• http://www.ww2wings.com
• http://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/8266
• http://www.quarryhs.co.uk
• http://users.telenet.be/Emmanuel.Gustin
• http://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA529948
• http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006542034
• http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001526585
• http://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD0323192
• http://www.conradwings.com
• http://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Aerospace.htm
• http://web.archive.org/web/20210812220756/http://www.aeroclocks.com
• http://collinsradio.org/archives/1959_Catalog/Collins_1959_Aviation.pdf
• British Aircraft Armament: RAF Gun Turrets from 1914 to the Present Day, book
• British Aircraft Armament: RAF Guns and Gunsights from 1914 to the Present Day, book
• Combat Flying Clothing, book
• Combat Flying Equipment, book
• Type A-2 Jacket, Flight Jacket Identification Manual, book

To be Listed Seperately

• http://m-selig.ae.illinois.edu/ads/aircraft.html
• http://www.fuselagecodes.com
• http://www.luftarchiv.de/index.htm?/flugzeugbau/vbkza.htm
• http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org
• http://www.escape-maps.com
• http://www.silkmaps.com
• http://www.ww2nar-pac.com/research/targets
• http://www.loc.gov/item/2009582531
• https://web.archive.org/web/20161110100614/http://www.airfieldsdatabase.com
• http://usafupt.com
• http://www.alternatewars.com/SAC/SAC.htm
• http://www.usaaf-noseart.co.uk
• http://www.shortsnorter.org